I’ve recently done a couple of threads relating to the financial approaches to Europe by both of the big Clubs in Glasgow.
Celtic as we all know have operated quite a tight ship over the past decade or so opting to make money in the player trading market whilst maintaining a firm grip on Domestic matters at home.
The 2angers meanwhile have opted to go for their more traditional approach of overspending and risking all for success Domestic or otherwise.
https://forum.67hailhail.com/t/the-true-costs-of-ucce/17045/5
Well last night The 2angers managed to pull the ultimate rabbit out of a hat.
Seville beckons and a Europa League Final against Eintract Frankfurt who at present currently languish in 11th spot in Bundesliga Table having not won a league game since the13th March.
The 2angers are very much in a position and on course to win a major European Trophy in order to gain a direct route into the Champions League proper as a seeded side.
Quite the turnaround from a baw stuck on top of a hedge in Sunny Brechin in 2012.
Some might hope that baw will burst in scorching Seville 
This is whether you choose to admit it or not quite an astonishing rise in fortunes for a 10 year old Entity.
Those who have invested heavily in The 2angers are perhaps about to see a massive gamble pay off.
Good luck to them if it does.
Fortune favours the brave after all.
The great reset at Mordor could well be back on.
Put it this way… If Champions League monies are going to have a massive effect on Celtic going forward under Postecoglou just think what a £30-40m cash injection might have at The 2angers?
A club running on borrowed fumes for the best part of that 10 year run now has real money to play with and nor just Chuck at reducing eye watering losses as they have been since 2012.
It’s been losses all the way (£190m )and ironically it could be one win that reverses the trend.
I say could because we all know anything can happen in Football.
The 2rangers will however be favourites going into this game.
What then for the rest of the Scottish game?
A game that has seen both of Glasgows big two dominate the Domestic scene since David Murray wielded his chequebook in anger all those years ago.
The big two getting a massive cash injection just pulls us away further from the rest.
The same chasm we have to cross in Europe then becomes a similar if less hyped up chasm in Scotland.
All things are relative after all.
C’est la vie you might say.
The gamble of course if it does pay off hasn’t only worked out for the Investors at Ayebrokes (who have chucked over £70m in Loans for Equity at it since 2018 )but it also helps the those on the Celtic Board who are very much into the concept of a Duopoly in Scotland as the Monopoly we have experienced over the past Decade due to a similar reckless approach has apparently cost our Club 10’s of Millions in revenue over the piece 
When Rangers went down we took £100 off the season tickets.
So that is £4m for two years. The Rangers games, that is at least another £3m. The fact there is a perception among our supporters that there is no competition and you are going to win anyway, and you don’t go to the game, so it could be £10m. We could have lost £10m a year, quite easily, on the back of Rangers going down.- Peter Lawwell
I say us but Peter did well all the same 
You will note the language he was using post Liquidation.
They had gone down and not as most recognised started life at the bottom and climbed up.
A smoking gun that has smouldered in the Celtic Park Boardroom for a full decade.
Now decommissioned as the ceasefire is well and truly back in place.
Those Tubesfae álbá
Their day has come.
Last night was a win,win for the Gamblers.
I have a feeling though that as back in the 80’s when the likes of Aberdeen and Dundee Utd were left behind by Fiver-Tenner Murray and Celtic were hurtling toward our own Armageddon in 94’ (thanks to his chequebook approach and our Take what you can get approach) we might be seeing something similar again.
Parity has been restored and I do believe it would have been Bollinger all round on either side of the Clyde last night.
The 2angers will deserve all they get of course should it pan out either way.
If they were to lose that game and not qualify through the qualification route it could well all unfold again as the losses are simply unsustainable long term within our domestic game.
Should they win it however and good luck to them if they do?
Well we are in for a very competitive Title Race next Season with the only two financially doped horses in the running.
The rest as in the late 80’s onwards will be no more than also rans.
It’s up to you whether you think that is a good or bad thing for Scottish Football.
It will be for us and them.
Celtic at least have attempted to achieve success by operating within our own constraints.
Those constraints will be less this Summer as we head into another Transfer window clutching a rather sizeable amount of Euros in our hand.
It remains to be seen whether those at Ayebrokes will still have the stomach to risk yet more Investment in doing likewise or whether they will want some of their stake money back.
Interesting times ahead for all concerned.
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